Art from Her Heart: Folk Artist Clementine Hunter

"Clementine waited until her work in the Big House was done and the twinkle of stars filled the night sky above the Cane River. She was ready to paint, like the artists she cooked and cleaned for on Melrose Plantation. . . . Instead of canvas, she used window shades, glass bottles, black iron skillets, and old boards-whatever she could find. In the middle of her hundred years, Clementine Hunter had decided to paint." Hunter's work, inspired by memories of picking cotton and pecans, wash days, weddings, and baptisms, now hangs in museums across the country. Bibliography. Author's note. Full-color mixed-media illustrations.